Sunday, August 12, 2012

The charges amounting $42K had been
fined on Google’s failure of deleting personal data of wi-fi users while making
its street maps. Google had accepted that its street map project cars while
working on the street map projects had mistakenly collected personal data of
wi-fi users passing through the range of its cars.

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The charge referred to as violation
charge by the Norway regulator had been regarding this violation of privacy
rights. The Norwegian agency received a letter from Google on July 27 alerting it
to the undeleted data and asking the agency what it should do. The regulator
said Google has to delete it by Oct. 1.

Similar letter had also been sent
to U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office whereby Google had admitted to its
failure of deleting the personal data of users that had been collected without
user consent. The FCC had charged Google $25,000 for impeding its probe of
unlawful collection of data gathering. The U.K. agency asked Google to provide
the data “immediately” for analysis and a French regulator made a similar
request on July 31.

The personal data in question comprise of users
e-mails, passwords, and other personal data.